More Than 164,000 Illegal Immigrant Encounters In October

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Over 164,000 migrants were encountered trying to illegally cross the southern border in October 2022, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The 164,303 encounters are the highest October total on record, and amount to almost as much as October 2021, 2020, and 2019 combined. During fiscal year 2021, which began in October 2020 and ended in September of this year, CBP detained more than 1.7 million migrants — the second-highest annual total ever recorded. The data comes the month after reports that the Biden administration had been releasing massive numbers of illegal immigrants into the United States “with little to no

Rep. Cori Bush Falsely Claims White Supremacists Shot At Her In Ferguson

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On Monday, Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) made multiple false claims in one tweet, including that white supremacists shot at her in Ferguson, Missouri, after the 2014 death of Michael Brown Jr. The remarks came in a tweet suggesting Kyle Rittenhouse should not be acquitted after he fatally shot two men and wounded another as they attacked him during a riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 2020. “When we marched in Ferguson, white supremacists would hide behind a hill near where Michael Brown Jr. was murdered and shoot at us,” Bush tweeted. “They never faced consequences. If Kyle Rittenhouse gets acquitted, it

Failed 2018 And 2020 Candidate Beto O’Rourke Launches Bid For Texas Governor

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On Monday, Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke officially announced that he is running for Texas governor in 2022 after losing his campaign for U.S. Senate in 2018 and losing his campaign for the presidency in 2020. “I am running for governor to serve ALL of the people of Texas,” he said in his announcement. “I believe that the only way we are going to achieve great things for this state is by looking out for each other and moving forward together.” I’m running for governor. Together, we can push past the small and divisive politics that we see in Texas today

Obama Admin Economist: ‘Quite Unlikely’ Inflation Will Go Back To Normal Soon

During a CNN interview, Larry Summers, who was Treasury Secretary under former President Bill Clinton and director of the National Economic Council under former President Barack Obama, warned that the ongoing inflation crisis was unlikely to subside in the near future. “Given that you were worried about this before almost anybody else, and given that now you have got all these CEOs saying it’s going to go a year, maybe even past that, right, at that point, it wouldn’t be transitory,” CNN host Erin Burnett said. “How long do you think inflation is going to go up?” “I think the

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